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I have Cricket "broadband" which usually runs near the speed of dialup (in a range of 40K to 70K) with occasional bursts to 200K and other times under 1K.
I got a netbook and installed the Cricket device and software. No noticable difference in speed, but now I'm unable to do normal web surfing. Like I can open Gmail but get an Error some features did not load due to internet connectivity issue. Similarly, my list of messages displays but I can't read any of them (mouse over does not make messages clickable).
This is weird. Is there some problem common to or inherent in netbooks that might cause this problem? Not enough power of some sort?
Not if the USB bus follows the power spec. Wireless BB dongles consume a lot of power generally. I frankly have little idea where your problem could be arising from.
On another note, for sluggish connections, the Opera web browser with Opera Turbo enabled really does wonders (runs browsing through their proxies which compress data and reduce the quality of images).
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